An ideological/cultural analysis of political slogans in Communist China

Discourse and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 487-508

  Lu, Xing ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class struggle; Communist China; Cultism of Mao; Cultural revolution; Diachronic and synchronic approach; Ideographs; Ideological transformation; Ideology; Negation; Political slogan; Red flag

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033239090     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926599010004003     Document Type: Article

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